Xanthippe

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  Welcome me

  by natasha in

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  hello brothers and sisters am new here , what is the website all about ?.

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  Xanthippe

  Hi Natasha and welcome to the forum. What is it about? Well I remember hearing years ago in a talk that a person's religion is very often an accident of birth. In other words where in the world you are born and which family you are raised in affects what you usually grow up to believe.

  I often used this in field service to encourage the householder to examine their own religion. This is a forum where many that were raised in the JW religion do just that, freely and without censure, examine the beliefs they were raised with. Ask as many questions as you like. Enjoy!
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  A Former Jehovah's Witness shares her me too story

  by LisaRose in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/16/a-former-jehovahs-witness-shares-her-metoo-story/.

  when i was 23 years old, i started dating a (jehovah’s) witness boy and we’d go out to some dance clubs.

  there was a night in particular where i had too much to drink.

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  Thanks for sharing this LisaRose. I do feel so sorry for that poor young woman. The thought of what she'd been through and then those stupid old men disfellowship her.

  Growing up in a congregation you’re always aware that you are seen as a lesser being, that you have a position underneath men.

  I have said this many times and I would like to point it out again that right from birth you are a lesser being in this religion despite a very vociferous poster who keeps insisting that women have an easy time of it.
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  Do you have a place to get away from it all?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is your retreat .

  an actual location, or simply a quiet place in your mind?.

  i attended a concert on sunday, a featured piece having been commissioned by a composer who lives in the city but retreats to an island in the puget sound (usa) to write his music.

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  Xanthippe

  I like to walk in the woods on my own

  
  
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  Aliens

  by Jayk in

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  i thought i was weird that i believe in aliens.

  until i remembered that people believe there is a god..

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  Xanthippe

  In his book The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins has a chapter, Are We Alone? where he speculates what kind of bodies aliens might have. Stephen Hawking thinks it's dangerous to send signals into space to attract alien civilisations because he thinks we don't know what we might be getting ourselves into. Serious scientists take the probability of alien life seriously.
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  Strange

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a couple of times at the meetings this year we've been told that in the future we might get some strange directions from the society that might not make any sense to us.

  then they've said will we show our loyalty to jehovah by still obeying?

  seems a rather unusual thing to say.

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  All of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not

  We all presume and indeed hope this is all GB bullshit to soften the r+f up even more into absolute obedience and 'voluntary' contributing. It does sound very sinister every time I read it but I suppose old men living in luxury are not suddenly going to force everyone to run for the hills. Where would their income be then?
  
  
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  So here is my long winded story....

  by GTSfromSY in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thanks for the warm greetings all.

  wow!

  i am very moved, really.

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  Xanthippe

  Great story Gabe. Good reminder that we should at least try with JWs at our door or on the carts, especially the young ones.
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  little acts of kindness.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just had a coffee on way home when two young mums with babys in strollers came in with the usual bags and stuff for the little ones needs.

  i recall our days of little ones and the times we rarely went out.. i bought a coffee voucher for each mum and gave them my best wishes.

  i delight in doing random acts of kindness.. i wish everyone here as well a safe and happy christmas/ new year time.

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  Zeb great story, thanks. Sometimes I hold back because well this is England and we're a little insular. I'm afraid people will think what's she after, but I will try harder.

  A few days ago I slipped on ice at a supermarket car park and a lady came rushing over to see if I was okay. She had such genuine concern on her face. It would have made made day had it not been for the massive bruise way too near my hip 😀

  Live long and prosper Zeb and Happy Christmas.
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  Do You Feels That Your Life Was Ruined Because of Ypur JW Experience?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.

  have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.

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  Being raised a JW was an obstacle but not the only one. Most people have situations from childhood of one sort or another they have to overcome, and overcoming them is the true heart of the matter.
  This helps me when I think along those lines and I can honestly say the bad days come less and less the further away you get from the whole JW experience.

  I love this Millie, it mirrors the way I think about life.
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  Hell Exists

  by Poppy520 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many people of all denominations are beginning to believe that hell does not exist - but the bible supports the claim that it does.

  examine this verse, one under nkjv and the other nwt:.

  nkjv - matthew 25:46, "and these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.".

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  Xanthippe

  Xanthipe .........You're just being rude, straight up.

  You think I'm being rude asking you why you're here as you've never been a JW and you seem to just want to preach at us. Wow if you think that's rude I don't think you're going to last very long. Saying you came here to find what JWs believe? I don't buy it, you haven't asked that at all.
  
  
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  Do You Feels That Your Life Was Ruined Because of Ypur JW Experience?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.

  have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.

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  Xanthippe

  I got out at thirty so was able to make up for lost time to a certain extent. I would love to have physically gone to university instead of getting a degree through distance learning. I would have liked to have had a more interesting career but I graduated in my forties with a young child so that made it difficult. Of course that was a happy thing because I'm so glad I had her.

  Losing all my family and friends? What kind of friends ditch you because you have a different view to their religion. As for my siblings, they're still hanging on to that ridiculous pretence that after 28 years treating me like a leper it's because of their deep love for me. I am well out of a family like that, damaged, manipulative people who can't admit even to themselves that my leaving shook their belief system to the core and that's the only reason they want to pretend I'm dead.

  Did it ruin my life, it didn't help that's for sure but in some respects it saved me from the abusive elements in my life I needed to ditch.